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The Preview Reel: Mutants Over Wonderland
Welcome to the fourth week of CinemaNerdz’s “Preview Reel” where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. Memorial Day weekend is one of the biggest movie weekends of the summer, and this year features two franchise-tent pole films. There’s the next installment in the long-lasting X-Men franchise with X-Men: Apocalypse, and the follow-up to the 2010 smash hit Alice in Wonderland, Disney...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Angry Birds Smashes Box Office
Yes, the phone app that has won the hearts (and wallets) of millions has been made into a movie, and while it may have been a mixed bag with critics, audiences made The Angry Birds Movie the hit of the weekend, bringing in an estimated $39 million. While it may not look too impressive in stateside revenue, the $73 million production has been a massive hit overseas, netting a worldwide gross of $15...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Angry Birds Movie
It feels so odd to have an Angry Birds film in 2016. It was an app, whose target audience was supposedly children, created in 2009 and, by 2012, it had sold 12 million copies. Throughout the years, there have been many variations of the app, but the main point of the game always dealt with angry birds and shooting those same birds at some sortof target. Now, ten years later, is the feature-length ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Neighbors was a huge hit back in the summer of 2014 as it raked in over $270 million worldwide against a $18 million budget. A sequel was greenlit almost immediately and Universal hired most of the first film’s talent to return. Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, and Rose Bryne all star again in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, with Nick Stoller sitting in the director’s chair once more. Add in the talented Chlo...[Read More]
Movie Review: A Bigger Splash
Adult melodramas are usually hit or miss for a lot of audience members. When played right, they can become absorbing and endlessly engaging. A perfect example would be Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003). That film was able to provide viewers with a compelling melodramatic premise that was elevated by terrific performances from the main leads, steady direction, and sharp writing. The tricky...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Angry Birds, Nice Guys, and Neighbors 2
Welcome to the third week of CinemaNerdz’s “Preview Reel” where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. The first two weeks gave us Captain America: Civil War and Money Monster, but this week features one of the more intriguing weekends of the summer as there are three wide releases slated for Friday. We have the animated The Angry Birds Movie, Shane Black’s The Nice Guys, and the late...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Captain America Still Leads Box Office
People are still showing up to see the latest Marvel epic, as Captain America: Civil War remained the top draw of the weekend. It did have a drop in revenue from its smash opening, but at an estimated $72.6 million, it did a fine job keeping itself in the top spot. Its next closest competitor, The Jungle Book, came in at a distant second with an estimated $17.8 million, though both films have been...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Bugs Go to War in the Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants International Trailer
Hello again, dear readers, and I hope a lot of you have kicked off your summer movie season by seeing Captain America: Civil War. But even with all the big blockbusters coming our way, it’s good to also pay attention to smaller films. Such is the case with this week’s Trailer Trashin’ column, where I take a look at the international trailer for the French-Belgian animated film Minuscule: Valley of...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: What Movie Should You See This Weekend
Welcome to week two of CinemaNerdz’s “Preview Reel” where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. Last week gave us one of the biggest box office openings ever in Captain America: Civil War, which many movie studios saw coming so they opted to stay far away from its release. There’s only one brave soul to go up against the mighty Marvel, Jodie Foster’s Money Monster. Let’s break it dow...[Read More]
Movie Review: Everybody Wants Some!!
Adolescence gets a loudmouthed love letter with Everybody Wants Some!!, the latest outing from writer/director Richard Linklater. Dropping the grandiose ambition of Boyhood (2014) and returning to his Dazed and Confused (1993) groove, the Texas filmmaker takes fans back to the days of crop tops, Van Halen, and mustaches to die for. Marketed as a “spiritual sequel” to the stoner classic, and swappi...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: It’s Civil War as Captain America Ends Jungle Book’s Reign
Disney is having a wonderful weekend at the box office; not only are three movies owned by the Mouse in the top ten, and not only are all smash successes in worldwide gross, but its latest offering debuted in first, toppling its previous outing. Captain America: Civil War made a grand debut and continues the streak of chart-topping Marvel successes, opening at a whopping estimated $181.8 million. ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Captain America: Civil War
The 2016 summer movie season officially kicks off this year with Captain America: Civil War. When we last left Steve Rogers in Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014) he had disrupted the entire espionage world, and saved millions of lives by the way, by foiling the plot of Hydra to take over S.H.I.E.L.D. from within. Also, his oldest frenemy, Bucky/Winter Soldier, had saved his life after their fi...[Read More]